Jan Svankmajer wrote this remarkable book on Tactile art when he stopped directing films and experimented intensively with Tactile art after repeated censorship by the communist governmnent of Czechoslovakia.
His work far exceeds the limits of film and, whether film, visual or literary, is connected with the collective activities of the Group of Czech & Slovak Surrealists..
About the Author Czech Surrealist, Jan Aevankmajer, is best known for his extraordinary animated films, Alice, Faust, Little Otik among them.
Marinetti and Karel Teige.
Svankmajer also gathers together as contributors such notable exponents of tactical experience as Edgar Allan Poe, Guillaume Appollinaire, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Meret Oppenheim, Edith Clifford Williams, Ay-O, Valie Export, F.
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It includes dialogues with, and artworks by, other collaborating artists from the Group of Czech and Slovak Surrealists.
Illustrated with over 100 imges, this book is organised around many reproductions of Svanmajker\'s wondrous Tactile art objects, Tactile poems, experiments and games.
Jan Svankmajer wrote this remarkable book on Tactile art when he stopped directing films and experimented intensively with Tactile art after repeated censorship by the communist governmnent of Czechoslovakia
